Cart DB #325: Pro Action Rocky

Notes for chip search:

Use "+" as delimeter for all fields (except "cart name", where space is used); if many values are entered, all of them must appear in the cartridge then; case is not sensitive
"Mapper" is the actual mapper used by this cartridge hardware (might not match the one at wiki.nesdev.com, as at the moment I was analyzing this cartridge, there was no mapper assigned to it, so I had to assign my own number for testing)
"Original mapper" is the mapper used by licensed version of this game (for multicarts, it refers to mapper of the inside games, so 0+2 means this cartridge can run NROM+UNROM games)
Order in which you put values doesn't matter (you can write 7400+74138+7400 or 7400+7400+74138 to search for a cartridge that contains at least two 7400 chips and one 74138
Some chips (like PAL16*8) appear in cartridges as 16V8 or 16L8, so be sure to check both posibilities
Same goes for memories - type 27F080 to search for 32 pin memories, 27512 for 28 pin with two chip enables or MASKROM_1M_DIP28 for 28 pin with one chip enable
Same goes for mappers - some examples: AX5904(MMC1), AX5202P(MMC3), PT8154BM (9112MMC3), AX5208C(VRC4), 23C3662(VRC2)
Good news is that you can use wildcards, so 74139+*MMC3* will search for any cartrige that has at least one 74139 and MMC3 chip in any version

Name	Value
U1	39SF010(AM29F040P)
U2	EX128
U3	62256
U4	C6KE (MAX6381?)(PINHD-1X5)
C1	?
C11	?
C12	?
C13	?
C14	?
C15	?
C16	?
C17	?
C18	?
C19	?
C2	1u
C20	?
C21	-
CON1	FAMICOM_CART
CON2	FAMICOM_CART
D2
LED1
R10	100R
R11	100R
R12	100R
R13	100R
R14	100R
R15	100R
R16	100R
R17	100R
R20	10k
R21	150R
R6	100k
R8	68k
SW1	1-2UP, 2-3DOWN

Name

Value

39SF010(AM29F040P)

EX128

62256

C6KE (MAX6381?)(PINHD-1X5)

C11

C12

C13

C14

C15

C16

C17

C18

C19

C20

C21

CON1

FAMICOM_CART

CON2

FAMICOM_CART

LED1

R10

100R

R11

100R

R12

100R

R13

100R

R14

100R

R15

100R

R16

100R

R17

100R

R20

10k

R21

150R

100k

68k

SW1

1-2UP, 2-3DOWN

Pro Action Rocky cheat device for Famicom - reverse engineering I was finally able to grab this quite rare cheat device. Looks like it is somewhat similar to Game Genie, but the encoding of cheat codes is different plus it has some extendent features. Not much info about it on the web, the only valuable site is: https://www.chrismcovell.com/fcrocky.html [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6763698800_1599239221.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6763698800_1599239221_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/4919024700_1599239223.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/4919024700_1599239223_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/4671550300_1599239224.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/4671550300_1599239224_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/4323043800_1599239227.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/4323043800_1599239227_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] The device consists of: * 128 kB PRG-ROM (with potential capability of self-reprogram and update built-in cheat code lists, as it can control its /CE, /OE and /WE pins), * 8 kB CHR-RAM, * Microsemi eX128 FPGA [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/8517344000_1599239512_org.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/8517344000_1599239512_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/9532788200_1599239516_org.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/9532788200_1599239516_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/4204428300_1599239519_org.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/4204428300_1599239519_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6452089700_1599239520_org.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6452089700_1599239520_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6070518100_1599239525_org.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6070518100_1599239525_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3719884900_1599239527_org.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3719884900_1599239527_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/7224406100_1599239546.png][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/7224406100_1599239546_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] It sniffs CPU's address bus, slave connector's DATA bus and is able to drive CPU data bus. Because the menu is totally in Japanese, I was not able to understand any single word (I attach the menu structure). Maybe someone could translate all the text, marked with xx.yy? [url=https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3355098600_1599240082_org.jpg][img]https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/3355098600_1599240082_thumb.jpg[/img][/url] I attach the dump of $8000-$ffff (which is only part of the whole 128kB ROM). I did not desoldered the chip yet. More info soon...

Cart name		Notes for chip search: Use "+" as delimeter for all fields (except "cart name", where space is used); if many values are entered, all of them must appear in the cartridge then; case is not sensitive "Mapper" is the actual mapper used by this cartridge hardware (might not match the one at wiki.nesdev.com, as at the moment I was analyzing this cartridge, there was no mapper assigned to it, so I had to assign my own number for testing) "Original mapper" is the mapper used by licensed version of this game (for multicarts, it refers to mapper of the inside games, so 0+2 means this cartridge can run NROM+UNROM games) Order in which you put values doesn't matter (you can write 7400+74138+7400 or 7400+7400+74138 to search for a cartridge that contains at least two 7400 chips and one 74138 Some chips (like PAL168) appear in cartridges as 16V8 or 16L8, so be sure to check both posibilities Same goes for memories - type 27F080 to search for 32 pin memories, 27512 for 28 pin with two chip enables or MASKROM_1M_DIP28 for 28 pin with one chip enable Same goes for mappers - some examples: AX5904(MMC1), AX5202P(MMC3), PT8154BM (9112MMC3), AX5208C(VRC4), 23C3662(VRC2) Good news is that you can use wildcards, so 74139+MMC3* will search for any cartrige that has at least one 74139 and MMC3 chip in any version
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